Karen Acres Care Center

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a quality nursing home is it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another quality feature for this nursing home is that it received an above average long-term care score. In fact, this ended up being its second best category grade. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 98.93617 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. The nursing score consists of a handful of components, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.

The next category we rated was short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home an acceptable grade of B-. This is this facility's weakest category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 4.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.